Anaconda, Montana (U.S.)

Deer Lodge County

Last modified: 2024-12-21 by rick wyatt
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image by Masao Okazaki, 4 October 2024

• Description of the flag
• Seal

See also:

• Deer Lodge County
• County and Municipal flags of Montana
• University of Montana Western
• Montana
• States of the United States
  
  External sites:
  
• Municipal web site

Description of the flag

As part of a Sixth Grade Leadership program at Fred Moodry Intermediate School, classmates Hunter Miles, Ella Sullivan, and Christian Lanes designed a flag as a community service project because Anaconda had no flag. Three slightly different flag designs were subjected to a community vote via a survey in the Anaconda Leader newspaper. Of the 255 respondents, 228 chose the flag with a dark blue field. According to Maggie Swanson, a teacher at the designers’ school, the center of the flag shows a smoke stack to represent Anaconda’s history of smelting and has a ring the color of the copper, which the smelter made. The hills marked with a “C” and an “A” represent Anaconda Central and Anaconda High, from a time when the town had two high schools. Finally, the blue background is for the lakes and streams surrounding Anaconda.The flag was adopted by a unanimous vote of the Anaconda–Deer Lodge County commission on July 17, 2024.

Article: https://anacondaleader.com/content/sixth-grader-designs-flag-anaconda-–-and-asks-publics-vote-final-version
Image of flag from city's website: https://adlc.us/DocumentCenter/View/4563/Anaconda-City-Flag
Masao Okazaki, 4 October 2024